Human beings are not just consumers, resources or acceptable risk numbers to be exploited but parts of the same collective amalgamation of cellular energy that connects to the life force in a way that spreadsheets and data bases are not designed to measure. Green economy is nothing without a socially just bottom line and that takes collaboration and a multi-perspective additive vision that can change real systems in real time. Oh yeah, and talking/writing forever is not acceptable. Be the risk taker for the change you want to manifest. Green in biz as usual just trades the d in for an n.

Hello Douglas,
True, we need the tools to change business by diversifying start up options where good ideas are supported, not killed because of their competing possibilities. We have a subsidized version of inequities that business created by getting too big, brash and focused in a narrow track of bottom line behaviors.
Business and fair profits goes with business and fair trade. Over production is a crime of resource abuse, wages that workers cannot live on and health jeopardized by agri biz, military biz and pharma biz have jeopardized our species and others. We are humans first and need to reshape priorities. Standards change constantly and talking and writing is foreplay. We actually have the collaborative tools we need but we have difficulty utilizing them. The builders, risk takers and interdisciplinary whole pattern conceptualist heroes lack support because the old garbage is in the path. Garbage made by planned obsolescence, fast growth and linear thinking. Innovation will be enhanced with new tools, yes,(like social entrepreneurial hubs) but we have what we need now if we encourage and enable it with our real time, real space actions and resources.
cheers and happy solstice,djb